Book Note

• The Wall Street Bailout: An Insider’s View by Robert Rhodes

Correspondence

• What Happened at CCSF? by Allan Fisher, Wynd Kaufmyn, Marcy Rein and Rick Baum
• The Term ‘Capitalism’ Has Lost Its Radical Edge by Fred Block and The Editors
• Not Naming Names by Michael Meeropol
• The Limits of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis as an Explanation of the Crisis by Thomas I. Palley
• Listen Keynesians, It’s the System! Response to Palley by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• Prophets of the ‘Permanent War Economy’ by Ernest Haberkern
• A Guaranteed Annual Income Will Not Work by Ken Collier
• Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
• Empire—American as Apple Pie by Kent A. MacDougall
• Lula Won! by Maurice Brazin
• Post-Apartheid South Africa by Jeremy Cronin

Documents

• ‘The Deadly Implications of Capital for the Human Habitat’ by Paul M. Sweezy
• On English Farming and Sewers by Justus von Liebig
• 1862 Preface to Agricultural Chemistry by Justus von Liebig
• Ecology and Revolution by Paul M. Sweezy
• The Nabi Papers by Isador Nabi

Excerpts

• An Untold Chapter in Black History by Safiya Bukhari
• What Race Has to Do With It by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
• Why Unions Still Matter by Michael D. Yates
• The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism? by Michael A. Lebowitz

Exchange

• Climate Change: What Role For Reform? by Christian Parenti
• A Reply to Parenti by The Editors
• Reply to “The Myth of ‘Environmental Catastrophism'” by Eddie Yuen and Ian Angus
• What Does Ecological Marxism Mean For China? by Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, Hui Dong, Dezhong Sun and Lichun Li
• Toward a Global Dialogue on Ecology and Marxism by John Bellamy Foster
• Marx and Engels and ‘Small Is Beautiful’ & A Response by Samar Bagchi, John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff
• On Nuclear Power by Southern California Federation of Scientists and John W. Farley
• On the History of Imperialism Theory by Research Unit for Political Economy
• Rediscovering the History of Imperialism: A Reply by John Bellamy Foster
• Marxism, Metaphors, and Ecological Politics by David Harvey
• Eras of Power by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward

Interview

• The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development by Michael A. Lebowitz
• The Assassination of Fred Hampton by the FBI and Chicago Police, Forty Years Later by Jeffrey Hass
• Saying More with Less: Eduardo Galeano interviewed by Jonah Raskin by Jonah Raskin
• United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky by Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Matthew Schivone
• Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There by Linda C. Forbes and Pete Seeger
• Imperial Ambition: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
• Counter-Intelligent by Susie Day
• Creating a Just Society: Lessons from Planning in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.: An Interview with Harry Magdoff by Huck Gutman and Harry Magdoff
• It’s Not a Postcapitalist World, Nor is it a Post-Marxist One—An Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Evrensel Kultur
• The “New Economy” and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood by Doug Henwood
• Restoring Memory by Ali Shehzad Zaidi

Introduction

• The Robbery of Nature by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark

Memorial

• Bill Livant (May 24, 1932-June 2, 2008) by Ben Livant
• Harry Magdoff, August 21, 1913-January 1, 2006 by Harry Magdoff

Notes from the Editors

• October 2018 (Volume 70, Number 5) by The Editors
• September 2018 (Volume 70, Number 4) by The Editors
• July-August 2018 (Volume 70, Number 3) by The Editors
• June 2018 (Volume 70, Number 2) by The Editors
• May 2018 (Volume 70, Number 1) by The Editors
• April 2018 (Volume 69, Number 11) by The Editors
• March 2018 (Volume 69, Number 10) by The Editors
• February 2018 (Volume 69, Number 9) by The Editors
• January 2018 (Volume 69, Number 8) by The Editors
• December 2017 (Volume 69, Number 7) by The Editors
• November 2017 (Volume 69, Number 6) by The Editors

Poetry

• How does it end? by Marge Piercy
• She Works Like a Man; If a Woman’s Word by Linda Backiel
• I am wrestling with despair by Marge Piercy
• Consider these but you won’t by Marge Piercy
• Dirge for my country by Marge Piercy
• In the boredroom by Marge Piercy
• We give up far too easily by Marge Piercy
• Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant by Marge Piercy
• Welcome to post feminism and the left is obsolete by Marge Piercy
• Who has little, let them have less by Marge Piercy
• What they call acts of god by Marge Piercy

Remembrance

• Credo of a Passionate Skeptic by Adrienne Rich
• Two Letters on Monopoly Capital Theory by Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy
• Aimé Fernand Césaire (1913-2008): The Clarity of Struggle by John J. Simon
• The Death and Life of Che by John J. Simon
• Magic Death for a Magic Life by Eduardo Galeano
• With Thanks to Hans Koning by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
• Remembering John Kenneth Galbraith by Martha Sweezy

Reprise

• The Propaganda Model Revisited by Edward S. Herman
• Marxism for the Few by Doug Dowd
• The Clock Slows Down by Harry Magdoff
• The Story of Why I Am Here by Alice Walker
• A Question of Place by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Scars of the Ghetto by Lorraine Hansberry
• Possibility and Hope by Pete Seeger and Linda C. Forbes
• Voices of Socialism: Karl Marx by Ralph Miliband
• The United States Has Lost the War by General Vo Nguyen Giap
• The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell
• Capitalism and the Fallacy of Crude Underconsumptionism by Jonathan Penzner, Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy

Review

• The Radicalization of Dashiell Hammett by Albert Ruben
• Beyond the Class–Race Binary by Joe R. Feagin
• A Marxist Correspondence by Tom Mayer
• Two Intellectual Giants of the American Left by Paul Buhle
• Two Lives on the Left by Esther Cohen
• A Predatory System by Leda Maria Paulani
• Marx’s Ecological Education by Martin Empson
• Thinking Clearly about the White Working Class by Michael D. Yates
• Between Nature and Society by Helena Sheehan
• Patriarchies East and West by Judith Whitehead
• Movement as a Political Act by Joan Quesada

Review of the Month

• The Communist Manifesto, 170 Years Later by Samir Amin
• Making War on the Planet by John Bellamy Foster
• The Politics of Food in Venezuela by Ana Felicien, Christina Schiavoni and Liccia Romero
• Marx’s Open-Ended Critique by John Bellamy Foster
• The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne
• The Expropriation of Nature by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
• ‘The Present as History’ and the Theory of Monopoly Capital by John Bellamy Foster and Grzegorz Konat
• Women, Nature, and Capital in the Industrial Revolution by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
• Capital’s Historic Circle Is Closing by István Mészáros
• The Long Ecological Revolution by John Bellamy Foster
• Venezuela’s Fragile Revolution by Steve Ellner